Edith Wharton

The only thing to do is to hug one's friends tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton

R.I. Fitzhenry

"Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don’t let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity."
- R.I. Fitzhenry

Carl Sagan

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
- Carl Sagan

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Dante Alighieri

Will cannot be quenched against its will.
- Dante Alighieri

James M. Barrie

"It is not in doing what you like, but liking what you do that is the secret of happiness."
- James M. Barrie

Patrick Henry

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them
- Patrick Henry

Gaelic Proverb

Who God does not teach, man cannot.
- Gaelic Proverb

Benjamin Franklin

Experience keeps a school, yet fools will learn in no other.
- Benjamin Franklin

George Bush

"I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them."
- George Bush

Billy Joel

I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy.
- Billy Joel

English Proverb

Advice is least heeded when most needed.
- English Proverb

Erica Jong

You see an awful lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
- Erica Jong

Yogi Berra

If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.
- Yogi Berra

Florida Scott-Maxwell

"I want to tell people approaching and perhaps fearing age that it is a time of discovery. If they say 'Of what?' I can only answer 'We must find out for ourselves, otherwise it wouldn’t be discovery.'”
- Florida Scott-Maxwell

Kahlil Gibran

“I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.”
- Kahlil Gibran, Anthem of Humanity (1883 - 1931)

Eric Hoffer

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
- Eric Hoffer

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Oscar Wilde

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
- Oscar Wilde

William Least Heat Moon

“The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.”
- William Least Heat Moon

William Shakespeare

“Nothing will come of nothing.”
- William Shakespeare, Macbeth (1564-1616)

Victor Hugo

"There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher."
- Victor Hugo

Aristotle

Law is mind without reason.
- Aristotle

Dr. Martin Luther King

Forgiveness is not an occasional act: it is a permanent attitude.
- Dr. Martin Luther King

Ambrose Bierce

Cynic: A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
- Ambrose Bierce

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Henry David Thoreau

"Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!"
- Henry David Thoreau

Roald Dahl

“And Charlie, don't forget about what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he ever wanted. He lived happily ever after.”
- Roald Dahl (1996 - 1990)

Niccolo Machiavelli

He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.
- Niccolo Machiavelli

Mark Twain

Do not undervalue the headache. While it is as its sharpest it seems a bad investment; but when relief begins, the unexpired remainder is worth four dollars a minute.
- Mark Twain